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Past Projects... The Babelfish Tartuffe ...join a group of displaced French actors attempting to perform a strange new version of Moliere's classic comedy which they have translated into English by the online internet translator "Babelfish". This new text opens a door to a new world where nothing is as it seems, nothing is true, nothing is false, nothing is real, but somehow everything makes sense... For more info on The Babelfish Tartuffe click here.. tinylife ...set in a soulless office cubicle of the vast and sprawling Corporation Corp. tinylife imagines what would happen if the personalities people create in their fantasy lives were suddenly set loose in the real-world . Using a fast-paced, commedia-based performance style the play explores a tech-savvy modern world of contradiction, alienation, randomness, metaphor and escape...For more info on tinylife click here... La Familie European! ...for the 2007 Kinsale Arts Week Mangiare Theatre Company was commissioned to present an ongoing, interactive series of street theatre interludes and spectacles featuring a mis-matched, dysfunctional family of European tourists. Performing in the bouffon style and drawing on a range of acrobatic and clown backgrounds, La Familie European wound their way through the streets of Kinsale looking for Irish pubs, catching buses, hailing taxis, trying to read maps, and engaging everyone they meet in their own special brand of madcap humour... For more info on La Familie European click here.. The Evils of Tobacco ...a Russian double-header for the 2006 Dublin Fringe Festival. The self-styled Mangiare School of Performance Arts takes these two Chekhov farces on the road -- but with missing sets and props, electrical difficulty, and inter-personal problems, their production might turn out to be more farcical than the plays... For more info on The Evils of Tobacco and The Bear click here.. A Play on Two Chairs ...a comic exploration of the peaks and pitfalls of modern love featuring two actors and two chairs. An engaging piece of physical comedy, the play probes the ambiguities of how couples interact by watching a love affair between a man and a woman, evolve, unfold, develop, collapse, and evolve again -- all through the outrageous use of two ordinary kitchen chairs... For more info on A Play on Two Chairs click here... Lord Bates (for The Yekatite 23 Primary School) ... a series of clown interludes as a part of a very special fund-raising event hosted by the Sligo-based musician Steve Wickham and featuring such international names from the music world as Mike Scott and Richard Naiff from The Waterboys, Liam O Maonlaoi of the Hothouse Flowers, and Declan O Rourke... For more info on Lord Bates click here. MetroProject ...deep inside the Paris metro, Mangiare Theatre Company presented MetroProject: an innovative theatre event that took place onboard the Paris metro. Featuring five directors, four playwrights, three live musicians (with musical director Steve Wickham), and over twenty actors, MetroProject was five original short plays that ran one after the other on the Metro Line 8 as it travel from station Bonne Nouvelle to Bastille and back...For more info on MetroProject click here... The Fever ...an affluent, American man, suffering from a sense of disillusionment with his own world, is travelling to a poor, third-world country when he falls deliriously ill and collapses in a hotel bathroom. In the midst of his feverishness, he begins to understand the unfair balance of wealth and power in the world...For more info on The Fever click here... Pussy&Thierry! ...part cabaret, part clown, part jazz band, part street theatre; Pussy & Thierry! follows the musical careers of a married couple, Pussy (Amy Howard, saxophone) and Thierry (Jaimie Carswell, double bass) and their long suffering side-man Dickie Dunthorpe (Justin Carroll, melodion). One time stars of the boardwalk and cruise ship circuit, Pussy and Thierry have since fallen from the dizzying heights of their early fame and are now forced to eke out a living in the streets, squares, and tiny cafes of Paris...For more info on Pussy&Thierry click here... Too Much of Nothing ...set in a large café in contemporary Ireland. In the play two lovable losers from the outer margins of Irish society grapple with their personal demons and confront what they regard as the major preoccupations of the new millennium. Through humorous arguments about modern Ireland, mobile phones, and coffee culture, the play manages to confront some of the serious questions of our times with humour and absurdity...For more info on Too Much of Nothing click here... One Too Many Mornings ...explores the clash between rational and irrational thinking, coupled with digs at present day society and packs in plenty of comedy and sympathy as we watch these two loveable losers try to adapt to each other and modern life...For
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